S.J.

I felt only a simple sense of gratitude to God for having sustained me through those years and, in his providence, bringing me home again at last.

or every man’s life contains its share of suffering; each of us is occasionally driven almost to despair, to ask why God allows evil and suffering to overtake him or those he loves.

He had stripped away from me many of the external consolations, physical and religious, that men rely on and had left me with a core of seemingly simple truths to guide me